For example, on the price of delivering a baby.

You live in Sacramento, you can expect to pay twice as much to deliver that baby here,

meaning you're home town of New York City.

I actually heard that it costs more to deliver a baby here in Sacramento than anywhere

else in the entire country.

Why Sacramento should be the most expensive place to have a baby?

There's no way to explain it.

Carrying for a premature baby in Northern California, for example, costs about $605,000.

In Southern California, $343,000.

In all, he says the average cost of inpatient care in Northern California is 70% higher

than in Southern California.

Wow.

We happened to broadcast from California, but that was a national story on 60 minutes last

night just pointing out what hospitals can do if they get motivated for profit enough.

In Southern Vermont and Southern California had a discrepancy that large.

I would find that really interesting, really notable.

The fact that it's a little car ride up and down I-5 is stunning to me.

Go ahead.

You've got to hope that this is not coming to wherever you are as hospitals figure out

how to make more money off of, well, be in hospitals, make it a for-profit business.

There's a USC health care economist explaining how the whole thing works and how you can make

it happen anywhere in the country, really.

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